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WR5- Sandra de Helen

Apr 12, 2011 Comments Off by Dmae Roberts

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In our fifth installment of Writer’s Read, writer Sandra de Helen reads a poem titled “Beautiful.” She lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. See her current work in Mom Egg, Stillwater Review, Lavender Review: Night Issue, and “pay attention: A River of Stones.” Also featured is music by Portland Pianist and Cynthia Stillman Gerdes from her new CD “Solo and Chamber […]

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Mar 25, 2011 Comments Off by Dmae Roberts

Host/Producer Dmae Roberts features the Portland Playhouse production of August Wilson’s play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. We’ll be talking to Portland Playhouse’s Kevin Jones, director,and actors Julianne Johnson and Wendell Wright. Dmae also checks in Mari Watanabe of Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center about their Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Festival event April 3rd at noon to help raise […]

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Are You Listening?

Mar 25, 2011 1 Comment by Dmae Roberts

Commentary by Dmae Roberts *originally published in The Asian Reporter. (photo by Laura Moulton) I fell in love with public radio in the 1980s while getting my degree in journalism at the University of Oregon (UO). At first I thought I’d go into print but then I started volunteering at KLCC, a community station in […]

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Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom

Mar 17, 2011 Comments Off

Producer Macon Reed worked with Dmae Roberts ona feature about Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, the debut story in the “Pushing Boundaries” series. Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom who makes films about people he says we put an ex through: ex-cons, people with long histories of drug addiction, mental illness, and homelessness. He uses his films to start […]

The Lone Asian: Commentary

Feb 21, 2011 2 Comments

By Dmae Roberts If you grew up in Oregon, you know what it was like to be the lone Asian (unless you were with family members) in a crowded room, restaurant, grocery store or public event. It’s more unusual now to be the sole Asian in public in Portland, and I’m surprised when it does […]

Writers Read-A. Molotkov

Feb 22, 2011 1 Comment

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A. Molotkov is a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist. Born in St. Petersburg, he moved to the U.S. in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. He is the author of several novels, short story and poetry collections and the winner of the 2011 Boone’s Dock Press poetry chapbook contest for his […]

WR2-Tracy Burkholder

Feb 08, 2011 Comments Off

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Our second Writers Read segment …this time from Tracy Burkholder of Portland who gives us two-minutes from her novel-in-progress You Can Go. Please Stay. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Burkholder has an MFA from Bennington College and has been published in The Portland Review, Silk Road and Pacific Review. Featured Music: Moira Smiley & […]

Coming Home: Return of Alutiiq Masks

Nov 27, 2010 1 Comment

Dmae Roberts presents a half-hour version ofComing Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks, a one-hour radio documentary that interweaves oral history interviews, Alutiiq music and soundscapes.This full-length documentary originally aired in 208 on about 188 public radio stations around the country. Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks takes us to Kodiak, Alaska where Alutiiq […]

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Author Archive

WR5- Sandra de Helen

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Are You Listening?

Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom

The Lone Asian: Commentary

Writers Read-A. Molotkov

WR2-Tracy Burkholder

Coming Home: Return of Alutiiq Masks

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